This movie is a bit procrastinated, a bit hypocritical, and the theme of the story is worth discussing, but that doesn't mean it's a good story.
I don't understand why Taiwan translates it into "crazy man". The one who is like crazy is always Anna, and Jacob, he is neurotic when he dies.
However, it did not demean anyone or evaluate who was right and who was wrong, willing to be beaten and willing to suffer, and there would not be too clear and clear boundaries in the relationship.
The reason why it is called "choice" is that the choices the two make at different times determine the overall direction of their relationship. If they had chosen another path at that time, maybe everything would have been different.
In the student days, there was no huge social pressure, not so much following the rules, not so many time constraints, just like the title, LIKE CRAZY.
Anna took the first step, made the first choice in this relationship, told the person her heart, but also carefully told the other person: My courtship is not because of me. is a crazy woman. What is the subtext? Everything is because I can't help but like you, like crazy.
After that, holding hands to eat, drink and play, intimacy and warmth are inevitable, and it is also a contrast to the cautious and unfamiliar after "growing up", and each has his own thoughts. Now, just as the present cannot deny the future.
I remember that when Jacob went to Anna's apartment, he thought Anna's chair was uncomfortable. I always thought that this point was to pave the way for a series of behaviors that Jacob made Anna's chair and sent to London; Can be enlarged a little more.
Throughout the whole movie, Jacob is always the one who is used to backing away because he feels uncomfortable. I don't know if the fact that Jacob only has a mother in the movie is an explanation of his character. In his two relationships, the woman took the initiative, and he responded accordingly. Anna gave him strength in spirit, and Samantha gave him strength in life. In his upbringing model, there is no father role to be used as a role model.
If the chair is not comfortable, then we need to make a new one; if the relationship is not comfortable, it is not easy to pass.
The first contradiction in the film is Anna's parents. As a foreigner, Anna has a unique sense of mystery with different accents, different ideas, and different growth environments. The appearance of her parents seems to be a mystery. The key point, a little left may be the destruction of the mystery, and a little right, it will be the polishing of the mystery. Unfortunately, for Jacob, all he thinks about is the Anna in front of him, nothing to do with her parents, nothing to do with her family, nothing to do with those wines, and nothing to do with that illusory future. However, he chose to forbear.
Before leaving, if Anna did not stay willful, then she and Jacob would not be separated from each other. This solemn and childish decision became the turning point of everything. And Jacob, he should have tried to dissuade him, he should think about their future, for Anna's sake, not for "staying with her a little longer" - for himself.
This of course will not end well, and it will be the beginning of a war of attrition.
It was also from here that Jacob's smile was gradually replaced by embarrassment and helplessness.
After the separation, the two of them started their own lives. Even if it was painful, they didn't seek life and death. This is why the movie was named LIKE CRAZY, right? Because they are not crazy yet.
If you really love so crazy, what is the jet lag? Calls should be made, emails should be sent. The "suffering" scene of the voicemail, I thought, was a tacit attempt by the two protagonists to try to see whether the days without each other could be tolerated, and whether there was still joy in the life that was drifting away.
As audiences, we only see what the movie shows, about the bits and pieces of the two people when they are together, the pain and entanglement when they are not together, but often ignore the other times that occupy a larger proportion of their respective lives, the joys, sorrows and sorrows at work. , the joys and sorrows of getting along with friends, the joys and sorrows of being in harmony with the world, you are not Romeo, and I am not Juliet, we all need to be self-reliant, instead of interpreting ironic love tragedies on behalf of the two families. We all have one or a few spare tires that can’t satisfy us but make us restless.
A moment of misery can make people forget happiness, but people always hope to pursue happiness; a moment of happiness makes people forget their sorrow, and people like the feeling of "dream come true".
Of course, things are always twists and turns, there is no sudden cold feeling, and there is no estrangement for no reason. Uncomfortable and uncomfortable in London, asking each other if they have a new love, the sense of crisis caused by Simon's appearance, the boredom and forced smile in Anna's house, the pressure of being "forced to marry" by Anna's father, and leaving unhappy, All of these provided excuses and motivation for Jacob and Anna to drift apart.
So Samantha in Jacob's shirt made a gorgeous appearance, a typical sexually suggestive shirt scene, the same career, being together every day, love and sex at your fingertips, if I were Jacob, I would silently put away Anna's letter and silently ignore Anna text messages; love and reality are like drawings and finished products, the most comfortable is always the latter.
Being with Anna is like a painting that can never be finished. If marriage is the last process, no matter how difficult it is, it must be done. So, Jacob and Anna got married in England.
When the marriage visa to the United States was rejected, Jacob's last insistence disappeared. After finding all excuses to prove that "it was you, not me", he gave himself a perfect excuse to leave, and he fled again.
So, she and Simon, he and Samantha, started a peaceful life; however, Anna was obviously more miserable than Jacob, but there was no way, this relationship was started by her, the more investment, the more hurt , the more you can't let go.
In order not to "hurt" Samantha again, Jacob dashingly deleted the "I miss you" that has not been recovered, like a husband who maintains the family. yes! husband! Anna, who is far away in the UK, is a married woman, which also vaguely indicates that she will lose the spare tire of Simon; and Jacob, the free man in the United States, holds another woman in his arms. After the rain, think about Anna. ,that is it.
Dramatically, when the two had little interaction, the embassy revoked the ban, Anna could go to the United States to find Jacob, but life with Simon was proceeding in an orderly manner. Compared with Jacob's patience, Simon's "prohibition" did not seem to appeal to Anna's parents, but he was the man who asked her parents to marry because he loved Anna, not Jacob. Jacob never faced problems head on, he would just endure, then run away, get married, which he never thought of at first.
Simon's proposal forced the revelation that Anna was married, which gave Anna a reason to drop everything to find Jacob.
Samantha left Jacob and Anna returned to America. When the two embraced naked in the bathroom, they recalled the past rather than their hopes for the future.
Can they really go on?
Once, they were crazy in love; now, their love is sealed.
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